Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Huckabee Threatens GOP over Same-Sex Marriage
Last week, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee told Newsmax that he is looking at a possible bid for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016. Asked in a Newsmax TV interview if he is considering another White House run, Huckabee declared, “Yeah, I’m not ruling it out at this point. I’m not sitting around having meetings with the strategic team, but it’s something I will certainly look at and I’m talking to some people just to determine whether it’s a kamikaze raid or whether it has potential and possibility.” Huckabee, who was governor of Arkansas for 10 years until 1997, will be 61 in 2016, relatively young but almost a generation older than the new GOP contenders. Huckabee generally ran third in the 2008 GOP primaries, behind eventual winner John McCain and Mitt Romney. He won the Iowa caucuses and seven other states and got more delegates at the 2008 Republican National Convention than anyone apart from McCain. Then he became a TV personality with his own show and a commentator on political issues and decided to sit out the 2012 presidential race despite several polls saying he would be among the front-runners. “All the factors say ‘go’ but my heart says ‘no’,” he said about 2012. ~~~~~ Fast forward to 2013 - early this week, Huckabee, a Baptist minister, jumped into the same-sex marriage argument, warning that if the Republican Party announces its support for same-sex marriage, it will lose the religious-social right of the Party. Huckabee suggested that they would leave the GOP, which would suffer the loss of the backbone of its support. We might ask, dear readers, if Huckabee, the potential 2016 presidential candidate, would go with them. Given that the religious-social right would have to formally create a new party, register voters, get on ballots, raise funds and hold presidential primaries - all in less than three years, and remembering that a third party candidate has never come close to winning a presidential race - my guess is that Mike Huckabee is simply trying to arm-twist the GOP into standing by its no-same-sex-marriage position. And then we might also assume that Huckabee is not as serious about being a candidate as he is about influencing the GOP's choice of both candidate and platform for 2016. And he and the religious-social right are entitled to lobby for their principles. But, threatening to take his marbles and go home is probably not the best way to sway most Republican voters - or the Republican National Committee. Let's see what the US Supreme Court rules in June concerning the same-sex marriage cases before it now, Then, it will be time for the GOP to map out its same-sex marriage position going into 2016 and to develop a strategy to support that position.
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Rev. Huckabee, threats , and same sex marriage. Now this is indeed a subject to be greeted by.
ReplyDeleteI fully agree with you the Huckabee is just trying to do some "posturing" and "positioning" with the established GOP.he and his social-religious right (that I happen to agree with a lot at times)have no place to go and not enough time to get there for him to be a threat to the GOP candidate in 2016.
The issue of Same-Sex-Marriages should be in the hands of the states and not the federal government as Jeb Bush said this morning.
We have conceded on Abortion, on Quota Systems, on Immigration, on budget cuts for the Military, on equal rights where "EQUAL" is not really in play, on dropping any religious reference to Christmas season, on prayer in Schools, etc., etc. We are almost at the bottom of the "slippery slope" ... same sex marriages was won a long time ago, we just didn't know it or didn't want to acknowledge it then.
After same sex marriage whats left to lose ... separation of church and God fearing people, or pedophile legalized, bigamy - 10 people all married to each other, marriage between a man and his beloved dog Fiddo ... someone tell me where this will stop, because I don't see any end to the indecent proliferation of this freedom of choice extravaganza.
Any of us who believe in God, in marriage between a man and a woman, in freedom, in balanced budget, in decent behaviors in all parts of life may soon relish a Gov. Huckabee's simplified, religious logic.
"Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners".
ReplyDeleteMarriage is the greatest covenants that man & women can make with God I believe.
It's a promise that we are telling God that we will marry by his standards and raise his greatest gift -children in his teachings.
For me I don't see how any form of Same Sex Marriages fulfill this covenant.
Equality under the law does not require the demolition of marriage.
Pass all the laws required to give legal status to Same Sex Unions and co-habitations. But leave marriage alone
"In a galaxy far, far away ..."
ReplyDeleteOnce years ago before I started to pay taxes and be responsible for others than just myself, I believed in the mutterings of the publicly known as having some truth, honesty, and personal believes intertwined in what was said. GULLIBLE.
Today we have people who speak about things that they do not know anything about, care about, or ever even think about. They speak at length about anything if a microphone is pushed in their face or from a podium that have to stand on regularly.
Actors and actress will speak on anything just to convince the world that they know little more than acting. CEO's exceed their bounds of knowledge at the drop of a hat. Politicians have been convinced overs years that they know everything ... everything their research staff tells them for the most part.
My point is that Gov. Huckabee is a good and honest man.And maybe the only state that he could have got elected from was Arkansas. After all the other nationally acclaimed politician that Arkansas gave us was one William Clinton. Now I'm not saying that Huckabee is anything close to the likes of Bill Clinton. I personally like Mike Huckabee.. a lot. he a deeply religious man, he's moral, he's honorable, good husband, good father ... simply a good man, my grandfather in a different age.
Sometimes (as most politicians do on a regular bases) Gov. Huckabee allows his religion to speak in the face of reality.
As both "Concerned Citizen" and "1776Forever" spoke to ... and something that I think in the private moments of his own thoughts Gov. Huckabee knows ... Same Sex Marriage will probably be deemed Constitutional one dark day. Maybe not soon, but some day
Although to date 30 states have all voted this subject down ... overwhelmingly. But, it will only take one vote once at the Supreme Court to wipe out the will of over 60% of this nations citizens and permit this hypocrisy to become law.
I think it is a bullying method when one threatens to take their marbles and go elsewhere. Or perhaps the former Governor, Mike Huckabee, and evangelical right have LOST their marbles.
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